Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.

Hazlitt, William

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Rice, Anne

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

The earth laughs in flowers.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Mizner, Wilson

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Thurber, James

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

Edgar Watson Howe

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

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Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Byron, Lord

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Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Eastman, Max

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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

Burns, Robert

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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

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If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.

Sterne, Laurence

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I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Chesterfield, Lord

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If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

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A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Twain, Mark

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

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It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.

Peake, Mervyn

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.

Prowdzik, Shaun